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Mr Aasjord lives on the banks of Kaldfjord, close to the city of Tromsø

All the people that have seen that picture tell me ‘he’s going to die in the next moment’

Svein Aasjord

“The whale of course was not up for the diver at all, he was just up for air.

“The diver is a friend of mine, he and his girlfriend are experienced divers, they are not professional divers but they dive all the time.

“We shut off the engine, as I am very strict when it comes to not disturbing the whales because they are feeding and I don’t want to interfere with their lives.”

He added: “If the whales want to, they come close to my boat, I don’t chase them.

“What led up to the picture of the orca and the diver was I dropped the divers off and I said I think there is going to be some activity here.

“There was a bit of a current and the divers were dragged into the middle of the pod feeding, the orca were hunting an enormous group of herring, the whole of the fjord was full of herring.

“The orcas push the herring into a ball at the surface where they can hunt them. My friends were right in the middle of a pod like that.

“It looks very scary, but the orcas didn’t seem to mind the divers at all, they could have touched the whales.”

Whale enthusiasts often flock to Tromsø, 217 miles north of the Arctic Circle, who want tours of the huge feeding displays by humpbacks, orcas and other whales, as its a popular hunting channel for whales feeding on herring.